Mentorship Application Form

You will also need to identify at least one (maximum of three) goals for your mentorship and agree to the full terms and conditions.

Process

SA Writers Centre will connect you with a mentor with four weeks of application. Mentorship fees must be paid in advance in full to the Centre.

What to expect

Mentorship hours are billed for actual time spent, in 15 minute (minimum) increments. This includes all contact with the mentee including phone/Skype/IM conversations, emails, reading and feedback time and face to face meetings.Note this means that if you send four emails to your mentor, that will equate to one hour of mentorship time.The mentor and mentee will develop a shared timetable and plan, including identified goals, and will keep a weekly record that tracks progress towards goals and time spent by the mentor.Any questions or difficulties will be resolved by the SA Writers Centre.

Rates

Mentorships are offered in five hour blocks.5 hours $55010 hours $88020 hours $1650You can add additional blocks upon completion of initial blocks if you and your mentor agree that this would be beneficial for your work.[gravityform id="15" title="true" description="true"]

Desert Writers

During 2014, we delivered the Desert Writers Project, in partnership with UWA Publishing and the NT Writers Centre, and funded through an Australia Council Special Publishing Grant.

The one-off annual grant was awarded to larger, innovative publishing projects that contribute to the development of Australian culture. Desert Writing meets such criteria with celebrated writers Marie Munkara (NT), Ali Cobby Eckermann and Lionel Fogerty (SA) commissioned to draw out rich voices from the desert. During 2014, an anthology of selected writings will be published.

From September 2013, the writers packed their four-wheel drives with papers, pens and ideas and drive out to Central Australia, Barkly region and Tennant creek in the NT, Coober Pedy and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunythathara lands and Yalata in SA and Lake Gregory (Paraku) between the Great Sandy Desert and the Tanami Desert in WA.

‘In that beautiful piece of country I met the most amazing people with the most incredible stories. Even in the silence when a finger pointed to a rocky outcrop as we drove by or some smoke in the distance I could still hear their voices speaking to me. There is an amazing and undefinable energy in that country and it’s there in those people too, sometimes it’s so strong you can almost touch it,” Marie Munkara of the process.

The collaboration was developed to celebrate desert regions and their people as a whole, maintaining a natural geographical region rather than state or territory divided. Desert Writers allows for a broader exploration into cultural links and traditions, expression and identity, all the while celebrating new writers and writing.

“Lionel and I were invited to deliver 2 workshops at the local Town Camp for Anangu. … Yalata lives in the shadow of the Maralinga atomic testing history. All families at Yalata have close ties to the survival of Maralinga and the relocation away from the radiation. This is the prominent story of the region. All submissions related to the bombs. Maralinga is an immense story.” Ali Cobby Eckermann, who travelled with Lionel Fogarty reports of her experience through Ceduna and Yalata.